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Description: | A late Roman buckle, incomplete in so far as it is missing its pin, classified as a Hawkes and Dunning Type IB (1961, 45ff.; see also Appels and Laycock (2007, 206ff.). The buckle is D-shaped, with a pair of outward-facing horse-heads, one at each end of the outer edge. The outer edge comprises a pair of degenerated confronted dolphins; the crests of dolphins on type IA buckles having developed into horse-heads. Between the dolphins' heads is a slightly pointed recessed pin rest. The dolphins' heads themselves are apparently moulded, and the bodies decorated with diagonal incisions on the upper surface below the horse-heads. The horse-heads themsleves are lower than the frame on the upper surface, and moulded, with a punched ring-and-dot eye and diagonal incisions indicating a mane. The lower surface of the buckle is flat and plain. The buckle has corroded to a variable mid-green colour with some patches of dark green/black patina. Traces of orange corrosion product around the pin bar suggest that the pin would have been made from iron. The buckle is slightly bent in profile as the result of an old strike.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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